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Showing posts with label background checks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label background checks. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2024

Background checks aren’t just a box to tick—they’re critical to any hiring process

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Picture this: a high-profile hire for one of the most important jobs in the world, and nobody bothered to run a background check. That’s rep...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

I’m not in Kansas anymore … or ever (an unemployment fraud story)

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What's wrong with this photo?
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Why “ban the box” doesn’t work for employers or employees

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Listen this clip from Ear Hustle (a podcast about “the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from th...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Defining (and defending) my role as an attorney: more on the employment of registered sex offenders

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On Tuesday, I posted something that I did not imagine would be all that controversial,  You just found out you hired a sex offender. Now w...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

You just found out you hired a sex offender. Now what?

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A reader sent me the following question. I worked for a grocery store. Can a child molester be employed by the grocery store? I reporte...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

A cautionary tale on why we background check employees

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A cautionary tale on why employers should conduct thorough  background checks on employers. In late 2013, Kristl Thompson, Ashley Raby, ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Everything you want to know about employee polygraph tests

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Lie detector tests, have been all over the news lately. Reports suggest that Donald Trump wants to administer these examinations to the ent...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

A cautionary tale about an attempted fraud (updated, 11:25 am)

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I was recently the target of a highly sophisticated legal-services fraud. Thankfully, this scam set off my Spidey sense from the beginning, ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Are you ready for rolling background checks of employees?

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Last week, Bloomberg published an article warning businesses to get ready for rolling background checks at work — the practice of running...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Should employers still test for marijuana?

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Photo by Michael Fischer from Pexels Ohio’s medical marijuana program is set to be fully operational by September 2018. Ohio will join...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Maternity leave does not guarantee continued employment

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By Grand Parc  CC BY 2.0  via  Wiki Commons Michelle Bailey worked in the human resources department of Oakwood Healthcare. Durin...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Ohio introduces employee background check legislation

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It’s been a busy couple of months for employers, keeping up with the employment-related legislation popping up in Columbus. First, we had ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

John Oliver shares his thoughts on “Ban the Box” #ShouldWeBanTheBox

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On September 30, the Ohio House passed the Fair Hiring Act , which would prohibit the State of Ohio from including on any employment applica...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

An injury without an injury? #SCOTUS, standing, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins . This case should answer a very important question for employers...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

It’s not illegal to give a negative job reference, but…

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When you receive a phone call from a company looking for information on a former employee that was a less than stellar employee, or worse, f...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

BMW settles EEOC background-check lawsuit for a cool $1.6 mil

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Last month, a South Carolina federal judge denied BMW’s attempt to dismiss an EEOC lawsuit which alleged that the company’s criminal backgro...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Is a LinkedIn search subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act

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I’ve written a lot in the past few years about the pros and cons of companies using social media to conduct background checks on applicants ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

My latest column in Workforce: Absolut Commitment to Checking

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In addition to my daily blogging, I also write a monthly column in Workforce Magazine . Here’s my latest from the March edition, discussing ...
Monday, February 16, 2015

FCRA class-action lawsuits should have your attention

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In the last month alone, at least three huge national employers ( Home Depot , Time Warner , and Michael Stores ) have been hit with class a...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

EEOC should do as it does, not as it says

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Last June, the EEOC sued BMW , claiming that the company’s policy of automatically disqualifying from employment anyone with certain felony ...